Poverty, Inequality and Social Change in Children’s Lives Advancing Equity for Children: 25 th Anniversary of the UN CRC Ginny Morrow, Senior Research Officer / Deputy Director, Young Lives Paul Dornan, Senior Policy Officer, Young Lives Presentation at the New School, New York, 5 November 2014
Presentation of findings from Young Lives by Virginia Morrow and Paul Dornan, at the New School New York on 5 November 2014. Further info: http://www.younglives.org.uk/news/news/event-advancing-equity-for-children
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Poverty, Inequality and Social
Change in Children’s LivesAdvancing Equity for Children:
25th Anniversary of the UN CRC
Ginny Morrow, Senior Research Officer /
Deputy Director, Young Lives
Paul Dornan, Senior Policy Officer, Young Lives
Presentation at the New School, New York, 5 November 2014
25 YEARS OF THE CRC
• Huge progress achieved though holistic approach to child
development
• Child survival and enrolment in school
• BUT widespread inequities affecting the poorest and most
vulnerable children = a global issue
• An ‘unfinished agenda’
• Emphasis on child protection
• 47% of all people living in extreme poverty are aged 18 or
younger (Olinto et al. 2013)
THE STUDY• Multi-disciplinary study that aims to:
- improve understanding of childhood poverty
- provide evidence to improve policies & practice
• Following nearly 12,000 children in 4 countries: Ethiopia; India
(Andhra Pradesh & Telangana); Peru and Vietnam, over 15 years
• Now covers 11 year period: first data collected in 2002, with 5 survey
rounds and 4 waves of qualitative research with nested sample 50
children plus school survey of children in school
• Two age cohorts in each country:
- 2,000 children born in 2000-01
- 1,000 children born in 1994-95
• Pro-poor sample: 20 sites in each country, reflecting country diversity